Meirav Heiman, born in 1972, lives and works in Israel. Heiman's photographic work deals with staged documentation of personal, family, and social situations in manipulated scenes that demonstrate life's beauty, pain, and absurdity. Heiman is a former student in the art department of the School of Visual Art, New York, and a BFA Cum Laude graduate of the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem. Heiman has exhibited widely throughout the world, at the Centro Andaluza De La Fotografa, Spain, the 'Transchina Video Art Festivalí, Beijing, China, the Video Art Festival of the Orensans Foundation for the Arts, New York, the Tel-Aviv Museum of Art, and the Herzliya Museum of Art, Israel, and others.